boot problems with K7S5A

Hello,

My System is nearly two years old. AMD 1700 XP+, ECS K7S5A, 2x256 MB DDR266 from Apacer, 300 W Codegen PSU, 64 MB PixelView GEForce2 TI, AVM FritzCard DSL, Creative SoundBalster 5.1 Live, 120 GB Maxtor HDD.

Operating Systems installed:
Windows XP Professional, all available Updates
SuSE Linux 8.1

Problem:
With both OS, even after reinstalling the systems, with this HDD and with all other ones tested, with this and with other PSU's SOMETIMES, my computer does not boot properly, but only shows a white blinking cursor [Win] or a black screen with simple nothing [Linux]

With another RAM, the system boots properly. My friend's system i have changed the RAM with boots properly with my RAM. Both systems have the K7S5A.
My RAM was tested by my vendor and works completely correct.

I think, my boot problems are caused by the mainboard, am I right?

Is there any possibility to solve the boot problems except changing the mainboard?

Thank you very much,

Carsten

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:27:27 +0100, "Carsten Pieper"
<> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>My System is nearly two years old. AMD 1700 XP+, ECS K7S5A, 2x256 MB DDR266 from Apacer, 300 W Codegen PSU, 64 MB PixelView GEForce2 TI, AVM FritzCard DSL, Creative SoundBalster 5.1 Live, 120 GB Maxtor HDD.
>
>Operating Systems installed:
>Windows XP Professional, all available Updates
>SuSE Linux 8.1
>
>Problem:
>With both OS, even after reinstalling the systems, with this HDD and with all other ones tested, with this and with other PSU's SOMETIMES, my computer does not boot properly, but only shows a white blinking cursor [Win] or a black screen with simple nothing [Linux]
>
>With another RAM, the system boots properly. My friend's system i have changed the RAM with boots properly with my RAM. Both systems have the K7S5A.
>My RAM was tested by my vendor and works completely correct.
>
>I think, my boot problems are caused by the mainboard, am I right?
>
>Is there any possibility to solve the boot problems except changing the mainboard?
>
>Thank you very much,
>
>Carsten

You say with other ram, your system works properly. Could be ram timing in
bios, or could just be your board is picky about the ram. Have you ran
memtest86? It is likely your ram will fail, even though your vendor says it
is good. Bet your ram fails in your friends motherboard too, even though it
"runs" there. Try the memory test, and if it fails, try different ram. Post
the results back here.

JT

Hello!

In the meantime, i have read in the FAQs of the Elitegroup-Homepage, that my Problem is caused by the mainboard. I can solve my problem enabling the S2k I/O compensation in BIOS.
The new problem is, that my BIOS does not have this option and that I cannot find the right BIOS update for the Mainboard release V1.0.

I have already sent a support question to Elitegroup.


Thank you very much and a happy new year,

Carsten


"JT" <datacare@www> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: s.com...
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:27:27 +0100, "Carsten Pieper"
> <> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >My System is nearly two years old. AMD 1700 XP+, ECS K7S5A, 2x256 MB DDR266 from Apacer, 300 W Codegen PSU, 64 MB PixelView GEForce2 TI, AVM FritzCard DSL, Creative SoundBalster 5.1 Live, 120 GB Maxtor HDD.
> >
> >Operating Systems installed:
> >Windows XP Professional, all available Updates
> >SuSE Linux 8.1
> >
> >Problem:
> >With both OS, even after reinstalling the systems, with this HDD and with all other ones tested, with this and with other PSU's SOMETIMES, my computer does not boot properly, but only shows a white blinking cursor [Win] or a black screen with simple nothing [Linux]
> >
> >With another RAM, the system boots properly. My friend's system i have changed the RAM with boots properly with my RAM. Both systems have the K7S5A.
> >My RAM was tested by my vendor and works completely correct.
> >
> >I think, my boot problems are caused by the mainboard, am I right?
> >
> >Is there any possibility to solve the boot problems except changing the mainboard?
> >
> >Thank you very much,
> >
> >Carsten
>
> You say with other ram, your system works properly. Could be ram timing in
> bios, or could just be your board is picky about the ram. Have you ran
> memtest86? It is likely your ram will fail, even though your vendor says it
> is good. Bet your ram fails in your friends motherboard too, even though it
> "runs" there. Try the memory test, and if it fails, try different ram. Post
> the results back here.
>
> JT